In August of 2016, we had some discussions on IRC about the value of HCoop getting out of the hardware business and running our services on virtual machines from an infrastructure-as-a-service provider. JackHill offered to evaluate options from a cost perspective, and this page is a place to gather those considerations. There are, or course, other considerations in addition to cost, and those belong here too.

== Cost ==

=== Current Needs ===

Our current needs based on the [[Hardware]] page:

 * '''Storage''': 2TiB. In AFS we are currently using 44% of 870GiB available space. 2TiB will give us enough space to accommodate our current storage needs with enough headroom to grow, local storage on machines, and working space for backups.

 * '''Servers'''
   * '''Web''': 6GiB RAM, 6 CPU
   * '''Login''': 3GiB RAM, 4 CPU
   * '''Mail''': 2GiB RAM, 4 CPU
   * '''Infra''' ''(AFS, KRB5)'': 4GiB, 2 CPU
   * '''Misc''': 2GiB, 2 CPU
 * '''Network''': current usage unknown

Our current cost per month at Peer1 is $680.

=== auro.io ===

[[https://auro.io/|Auro]] is a Canadian OpenStack provider

 * '''Servers'''
  * 1 x 2 GiB, 2 CPU
  * 2 x 4 GiB, 2 CPU
  * 1 x 4 GiB, 4 CPU
  * 1 x 8 GiB, 4 CPU

 * '''Storage'''
  * 2TiB in addition to what is included with servers

 * '''Network''' is currently free.

The above would come to $514/month

=== Linode ===

 * afs+kerberos master with block device (12G, $80)
   * will also include databases (7.2G, light usage, not financially
     sensible to split out)
 * tiny secondary afs volserver/kerberos  (1G, $5)
 * member shell server (8G, $40)
 * web server (8G, $40)
 * mail server (4G, $20)

block storage is $.10/G per month, we are using ~400G including dead
volumes now so could start with 600G to avoid downtime for resizing
volumes (or annoyance of vicepa, vicepb...)

80 + 5 + 40 + 40 + 20 + 60 + 10 = $255

outpost is $10 per month, could downgrade to $5 per month as well

=== Other VPS providers? ===

 * [[https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/|DigitalOcean]]
 * [[https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/|Amazon EC2]]
 * [[https://cloud.google.com/pricing/|Google Cloud Platform]]
 * [[https://www.ibm.com/cloud/pricing|IBM Cloud]]
 * [[https://ovhcloud.com/products/public-cloud/public-cloud-compute-instances|OVH]]
 * [[https://www.hetzner.com/|Hetzner]]